The Author, Mrs. Mary E. Harding Baird, Died April 1, 1937, Shortly After Completing This Genealogy
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OUR HARDING FAMILY A RECORD OF THE FAMILY AND DESCENDANTS OF SAMUEL HARDING WHOSE ANCESTOR WAS JOSEPH HARDING, SON OF JOHN OF ENGLAND AND OF LOVE MAYHEW HARDING WIFE OF SAMUEL HARDING WHOSE ANCESTOR WAS 'IHOMAS MAYHEW', SON OF JOSEPH OF ENGLAND WI'.lH HISTORICAL SKETCHES BY MARY E. HARDING BAIRD The author, Mrs. Mary E. Harding Baird, died April 1, 1937, shortly after completing this genealogy. This volume is privately printed by her family, January, 1957. I N D E X Page Joshua Harding 23 Children of Joshua and Lucy (Hatch) Harding Susan *Joseph Gould 24 Henrietta 25 Satira 25 Silas *Clarissa Eldredge 25 Samuel *Hannah Wing Hammond 28 Walden *Julia Cahoon 29 Lucinda 32 Laurietta 32 Albert *Roxanna Smith 32 Sarah Harding 32 Children of Sarah (Harding) and Elijah Gaylord Matilda Carrie *Morris Smith 32 Alexander Hamilton *Diana Hindson 34 Harriet *Joseph R. Bradford 37 Charles 37 George W. 37 Samuel H. *Margaret Hagenbaugh 37 Barney 40 Love 40 Lucy -:-~Joseph Harmon 40 Joseph Harding 41 Children of Joseph and Perrnelia (Hayden) Harding Julia Ann *Roswell Crippen 41 Edwin -i~---Drake 41 Darwin *Lucinda Smith (second) ---Nichols 42 Eliza Ann 42 Joseph Mayhew -:~Thankful Slingerland (second) Elizabeth W. Graves 42 Isaac 49 Nary Ann -~William J. Crane 49 Loretta Ann 49 Loretta Permelia 49 Philemon Doud -l~lary E. Clifford 49 Josiah 50 Samuel so Sarah Ann so Lucy Harding 50 Children of Lucy (Harding) and Jared Hyde William Philander -lcLouisa Bruce 50 Fannie Matilda -lcJames Augustus Adams 52 Paschal *Malinda Carlisle 54 Lucy 54 Caroline *John Adams 54 Jared Hyde, Jr. *Lucy Ann Lyons 54 Eley *Alfred Dockham 55 -~married Pa.J;e Theodore Harding 55 Children of Dr. Theodore and Roslinda (Soper) Harding Harriet *Judson Dann 56 Mariamne -~·Asa Pratt, Jr. 57 Perry H. ➔i-Abbie Weeks McIntosh 61 Cynthia 63 M.elinda -~Anson Dann 63 Helen *Robert c. Barrow 65 Loretta *Anson D. Finch 66 Alice ~-Bruce Van Dyke 68 Merris 68 Rachel Harding 68 Children of Rachel (Harding) and Timothy Butler Orvis Jam.es Riley ·:t-Lucy H. Heath 71 Samuel Harding *Lucy Ann Eddy 73 Joseph Mayhew ·*Amanda Sage 73 Mary 76 Helen 76 Timothy Butler, Jr. 76 Sereno Norton ➔(Annie Lowe 76 Cornelia ~-Oliver Potter 80 William Henry 82 Gertrude Louverna ·*Myron Congdon 82 Mehitable Harding 83 Children of Mehitable (Harding) and Asa Howe Samantha *Thomas Graves 83 Homer *Mary E. Bush 87 Arabella *Horace Cleveland 89 Salome -r~William Wilson 94 Abigail (Nabby) Harding 97 Children of Abigail (Harding) and Harry Welch Cynthia *walter Dewey 91 William. *Mary hcConnell 103 Emiline *Levi E. Palmer 105 Mary .,~Charles Palmer 107 Asenath Harding 108 Children of Asenath (Harding) and James Babcock Dewey Fanny -l(Lanson Baldwin (second) Harrison Rumsey 109 James, Jr. *Lorena Rumsey 110 Sanford *Harriet Lorena King 112 Isabelle 117 Addison ,}Amy Aurelia Ripley 117 Emery H. ~.:-Hary E. Sturdivant 126 Lydia Jane ·*Rich Franklin 126 Solon Harrison ➔~Adeline Palmer 128 Henry Francis *Julia Louis Ripley (second) Mary Davenport (third) Celesta Valentine (fourth) Mrs. Mary Doud 129 Lorena A. 131 Sarah Helen *Isaac Whiting 132 Infant Harding 22 Arny Harding 133 Children of Amy (Harding) and Alvin Thomas Lorenzo ➔~Harriet E. McIntosh 133 Hamilton -l:-Elizabeth Becker 137 Charles B. 141 Minerva -~Emery Thomas 141 Susan -l~---- Slade ll~2 Alvin 142 Julia *Newton McClelland 142 Emma -~John Lillie 142 Jacob -~Mary Moore 142 Loretta Harding 144 Children of Loretta (Harding) and Isaac Worden Smith Orrin *Frances Hill (second) Lydia Hill 144 Vaughn Wesley *Ermina Welch 11~4 Louisa *Kelly Knowlton lh9 Nancy *Lyman Soper 151 Rosina *William Smith 151 Henrietta 153 Julia *Albert J. Joralemon 153 Simeon Harding 157 Children of Simeon and Dolly (Smith) Harding Amy 157 Emily *Chester Phelps 157 Josiah -~Harriet Potter 159 Smith T. *Miranda Jacobus Moore 160 Henry Harrison ➔~Florence Boyle 163 Rhoda 165 Almond H. (Frank S.) 165 Sarah Ann ( Clara Sophia) *Alvah Hopkins 165 Josiah Harding 169 Children of Josiah and Eliza (Proven) Harding Simeon {George Simeon) *Lydia Ann Goodenow 170 Lucy A. *George Soper 171 Amy S. -i:-Adam Richter 174 Emmeline 175 George Washington *Artibell Mills 176 Perry J. 177 Ida J. -'-l-Clarence Webb (second) Anson J. Preston 177 Charles H. *Katherine 1; Clark 178 OUR HARDING FAMILY FOREWORD In the beginning, the present work was intended to comprise only that particular branch of the Harding family to which the compiler's family belonged. This attitude seemed selfish, as it would include but one family of the Revolutionary War ancestor, and would not prove of material help to the other descendants of Samuel and Love (Mayhew) Harding in joining the patrioti:c societies. It would also cut them off from their genealogy and "proof of their descent from the immortal Puritans". There were fourteen children in the family of Samuel and Love (Mayhew) Harding. Thirteen of them lived to grow up, marry and be blessed with children. There may be omissions of names and dates, but remember the vast number of branches which have sprung up from our fa.illy tree. The living members of the family will need to supply omissions and correct errors. To quote the words of the venerable author of the original work who recognized the imperfections of the records: 11 To render aid the reader must banish mental laziness, prefer a work of love to cavils at imperfections, write plain and look for his reward in the acknowledgment and recollection of his service, and in the gratitude of posterity" -- The compiler of 11 Our Harding Family" has tried in every way to obtain the records. If anyone of the family is left out of the Genealogy, it is not her fault. Do not let any of the descendants reproach the compiler, or say "I belong to that family, why is my record not a part of it?" 2 ORIGIN OF NAME Hardin is doubtless a Gothic word, as it is found in all the dialects of the Goths. The name was found very early in Europe; it existed in Germany, Scandinavia, and Britain prior to the establishment of the fuedal system, and for many centuries before the adoption of surnames and the formations of dialects in Northern Europe. The Gothic tribes and especially the Saxons, seem to have delighted in the word, as though it had been their sobriquet of some successor of Wodin, or son of Thor, or significant of such martial qualities as they most admired. Perhaps commemorative of some historical event in which they gloried. For between the settlement of Hengist and Horsa in England A.D, 450 and the Norman Conquest, the name has been given to seven localities in Central &A'"ld Southern Britain. By 1086, when the Doomsday Book was written, Hardin had become common as a family n~e, and is recorqed in the Latin of the :period as Hardinus, Hardine, Hardineus and Hardingus. In the eleventh century coats of arms were given to men of that name. In French, "hardi" derived probably from the Normans, signifies bold, courageous, daring, and stout-hearted. 3 HARDING COAT OF ARMS The argent or silver shield signifies a clear conscience, and fame acquired through loyal service to his country. The bend is a decoration of honor, a scarf or shoulder belt -- meaning protection or defense of the country. It also represents justice -- being blue -- the color of loyalty, "true blue" tells of the Hardings' faithfulness. The Martlett is a swallow without legs., always on the wing, with merit to raise themselves. The Falcon is emblem of vigilence, eager and powerful in pursuit. Hardings evidently performed worthy exploits. 4 HARDING PIONEERS IN AMERICA From 11 The ,iardings in America", Wilber J .. Harding. Captain Sir Robert Gorges, a son of Sir Ferdinando, for his 'Valiant services to the Crown during the Venetian Wars, was in 1623 appointed by the Council of New England "Governor of the Plymouth Countryn. Sir Ferdinando was styled the 'father of colonization in America' and received from the king a charter which constituted him a proprietor of Maine. Captain Gorges was given a grant of land on Massachusetts Bay. The wife of Captain Gorges was Mary Harding, the daughter and heir of William Harding, Gent. Soon after his official appointment, Governor Gorges, with his wife and 'sundrie passengers and their families' started for the new world. In the list of passeilf~rs, accompanying Mary (Harding) Gorges and the Goverior, we find the names of John Harding, wife, and young sons, Joseph Harding, and Richard Harding and wife and infant son. Indications point that they were three brothers, and cousins of Lady Gorges. From the very earliest times there has been a tradition in the family of 1 three immigrant brothers who came to America at about the time of the Pilgrim Fathers' • This tradi tion has been investigated and accepted as a matter of history and fact. The History of the Harding family in America is a history of the pioneers. Among the first settlers in any part of the country there has bee11 a Harding. Original settlers of Braintree, Massachusetts, of parts of Rhode Island, then to Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania, and even farther west, to Minnesota have they traveled for a Homestead Claim. Their right as settlers they have contested against all obstacles, for a peaceful settlement. Of the three immigrant brothers, Richard, Joseph and John Harding, Richard was the eldest. It is from Richard's line that warren G. Harding, President of the United States, came. The line direct is from John Harding, the head, born in 1567, died in 1637. In the Will of John Harding I, he granted Real Estate to his brother William, generally supposed to be the father of Mary Harding Gorges, and money and personal property to his sons, six in number, of whom three had migrated to America.